Category: Azure

Cause Due to an Azure service outage affecting Azure Automation; automation jobs were not running on a Hybrid Worker and going to a failed state or hanging. The issue was raised with Microsoft, who advised us to remove a certificate from the Microsoft Monitoring Agent store. However, this was before they were fully aware of […]

Issue: Ran into an issue when initially setting up a new Automation account using an ARM template. We noticed that the module versions in the automation account were out of date, at the time we decided to ignore it thinking it was a anomaly. Fast forward a couple days and when trying to use an […]

When using Runbooks in Azure Automation, we can use a Hybrid Worker Group to access local resources within that groups data center. The Hybrid Worker Groups can be targeted when starting a Azure Automation Runbook . For more on Runbooks see Starting a runbook in Azure Automation. With an Azure Automation webhook, we can start […]

It’s community Friday here at PowerONPlatforms so decided to have a play with Azure Automation on the Microsoft Azure Portal. One of the cool features of Azure Automation is the ability to have an on-premise virtual machine as a DSC node. The following steps go through how to create a DSC node from your on-premise […]

One issue with Azure AD Sync or DirSync was that the password sync can somethings stop working even if everything in the console is looking OK. On previous versions of DIR Sync and Azure AD sync, there are PowerShell commands available to force a full password sync (See TechNet FAQ). With Azure AD Connect this PowerShell command no longer works and you […]